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CHAPTER XXVIII.
2e 8' d/ji<p\ o-ejUxctV, l<piyeveia, K\inana<!
B|Oai/jOi»i/ias Se? -rijaie K\t]iov^ew deaf.
Eur. 4>A. T. 1462.
Leaving this morning the hut in which we were
lodged at Thoricus, we enter a glen between Mount
Kordra on the right and Mount Tibari on the left.
The country becomes more cheerful as we approach
the village of Keratia. Heaps of scoria still occur
near the road-side: a peasant who accompanies us
calls it by its ancient name, (aiccopia).
These heaps suggest the meaning of the title of
a lost comedy by Antiphanes2, which was inscribed
Qop'iKioi, v §iopvTT(ov. I conceive that the Thoricians
were satirized in that play, as guilty of unfair deal-
*ngi by ^piercing through from their own into their
neighbours' shafts in working their mines for the
ore, of which the scoria is now visible near their own
village.
2 Atheneei, p. 689. e. where Schweighaeuser interprets the expression
*» if it signified xoix<"pi')C<"i or iossores murorum.
eiriKaTaTejivovTes twv fxerptav ei/ros, and avvrpfoavTes cis tb
tSw r\t)<riav, Demosth. c. Pantaen. p. 977. 7.
2e 8' d/ji<p\ o-ejUxctV, l<piyeveia, K\inana<!
B|Oai/jOi»i/ias Se? -rijaie K\t]iov^ew deaf.
Eur. 4>A. T. 1462.
Leaving this morning the hut in which we were
lodged at Thoricus, we enter a glen between Mount
Kordra on the right and Mount Tibari on the left.
The country becomes more cheerful as we approach
the village of Keratia. Heaps of scoria still occur
near the road-side: a peasant who accompanies us
calls it by its ancient name, (aiccopia).
These heaps suggest the meaning of the title of
a lost comedy by Antiphanes2, which was inscribed
Qop'iKioi, v §iopvTT(ov. I conceive that the Thoricians
were satirized in that play, as guilty of unfair deal-
*ngi by ^piercing through from their own into their
neighbours' shafts in working their mines for the
ore, of which the scoria is now visible near their own
village.
2 Atheneei, p. 689. e. where Schweighaeuser interprets the expression
*» if it signified xoix<"pi')C<"i or iossores murorum.
eiriKaTaTejivovTes twv fxerptav ei/ros, and avvrpfoavTes cis tb
tSw r\t)<riav, Demosth. c. Pantaen. p. 977. 7.